I am on a Tumblr-updating rampage. Not necessarily because I have time on my hands, but because I feel like sharing before these things become too outdated to share about. Something like that…
This is the Vasa ship, which is on display in the Vasamuseet in Stockholm: “the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.”
(Speaking of museums, museets, there are so many museums in Stockholm alone that I would like to visit before I leave. That is part of my Swedish-bucket-list to go to all the museums. Progress: 1 down 74 more to go. HAHA)
The ship was 1) ginormous 2) pompous. Definitely beautiful and amazing to see how people were able to build such things way back when.
Too bad it sank after sailing just one measly nautical mile, which is about 2km, because of a slight breeze.
“Vasa was built top-heavy and had insufficient ballast. Despite an obvious lack of stability in port, it was allowed to set sail and foundered only a few minutes after it first encountered a wind stronger than a breeze. The impulsive move to set sail was the result of a combination of factors: Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, who was abroad on the date of its maiden voyage, was impatient to see it join the Baltic fleet in the Thirty Years’ War; at the same time, the king’s subordinates lacked the political courage to discuss the ship’s structural problems frankly or to have the maiden voyage postponed. An inquiry was organized by the Swedish privy council to find personal responsibility for the disaster, but in the end no one was punished for the fiasco.”
It didn’t serve it’s purpose back then, but hey, at least they found it and dug it out (which in itself is amazing, people are so smart) & preserved it.
Moral of the Vasa ship: Don’t cut corners, do things the right way and patience is a virtue.
Till next time, hej då!
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